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Then she spread out a new mat for him, and brought out the pinang and sireh, and bade him be seated as she wished to have a chat with him. Siu had many questions to ask, but before he could do so, she said to him, "Tell me of your own people, and what news you bring from your country." "There is no news to give you," Siu replied.
Just before this the Battalion, which had been lent to the 155th Brigade, began its devious march across the exposed Kurd Valley, taking advantage of the winding wadies till it reached the el Sireh ridge and lay up in a nullah running up into Kurd Hill, being passed by the rear waves of the K.O.S.B. and R.S.F. advancing to their gallant but ill-fated assault on Outpost Hill.
The company all sit down in the long common hall of the Dyak house, and the betel-nut, sireh, etc., specially set aside for the ceremony, are brought forward.
Presently he heard a woman's voice in the room say: "Sit down, Siu; I will bring out the pinang and sireh to you." Soon a young and remarkably pretty girl came out of the room with the chewing ingredients, which she placed before him. "Here you are at last, Siu," she said; "I expected you would come earlier. How is it you are so late?"
The contents of the little basket, used to discover the will of the higher powers, is chewed by those present just as other pinang and sireh, and the marriage ceremony is over; the young couple are lawfully man and wife. For the wedding, the bride decks herself out in all the finery she possesses, or can borrow from her friends.
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